Google DeepMind launches Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, a major upgrade featuring enhanced spatial reasoning, multi-view understanding, and a new industrial gauge-reading capability built with Boston Dynamics — now available to developers via the Gemini API.
Generalist AI's new GEN-1 robot model is achieving a 99% success rate on physical tasks like folding clothes and packaging items, up from 64%, while operating three times faster and requiring only one hour of training data per task on any hardware.
Thousands of gig workers in Nigeria, India, and Argentina are strapping iPhones to their foreheads to record household chores, feeding a booming data industry that trains humanoid robots for companies like Tesla — but experts and privacy advocates are sounding alarms over how this intimate footage is stored, shared, and …
AI is going deeply personal this week: Utah launches a pilot letting AI renew psychiatric prescriptions for just $19/month, OpenAI secures a record $122 billion funding round at an $852 billion valuation, and thousands of workers worldwide are filming their daily chores to train the next generation of humanoid robots.
A groundbreaking AI system called ACRA is now autonomously reading scientific literature and translating chemical synthesis procedures into robotic lab experiments, successfully completing six real-world synthesis examples across two robotic platforms and promising to revolutionize automated chemistry research.
Charlotte robotics startup Lucid Bots raises $20M in Series B funding, bringing total investment to $34M, as its window-cleaning drones and robots surge from 100 to nearly 1,000 units sold while expanding into painting, waterproofing, and sealing markets.
Google's Gemini 3 dominates AI benchmarks with 8 million enterprise seats while Anthropic's Claude Code rockets to $1 billion in annual revenue in just six months, as AI specialists like Abridge, World Labs, and Hume AI drive major breakthroughs across healthcare, robotics, and emotional intelligence.
DoorDash is paying delivery workers to film their surroundings and record their voices for AI training through a new feature called Tasks, but security experts warn the biometric and spatial data collected can never be deleted once embedded in AI systems, raising serious privacy alarms for participants and bystanders alike.
Niantic Spatial is turning a decade of Pokémon Go player photos into a 30-billion-image map that now powers real-world robot navigation, with Coco Robotics already deploying the technology across 1,000 delivery robots in major cities worldwide.
Nvidia GTC 2026 unveils a sweeping AI strategy spanning robotics, personal agents, and open models with the new Nemotron Coalition, as the company fights to defend its CUDA dominance against rising competitors and cement itself as the foundational platform of the entire AI industry.